Tegiwa Driver Insight – Luke Sedzikowski
TEAM TEGIWA – DRIVER INSIGHT
We’re taking a closer look at the racing career of co-director and main man behind the wheel at Tegiwa Imports, Luke Sedzikowski. Since 1997, Luke has been building quite the list of accolades including the following milestones:
- 1997 – World Junior Hovercraft Racing – Vice-Champion
- 1998 – British Junior Hovercraft Racing – Champion
- 2003 – British F1 Hovercraft Racing – 3rd
- 2014 – Civic Cup – 3rd
- 2016 – 750MC M3 Cup – Vice-Champion
- 2019 – 750MC Club Enduro – 3rd
- 2020 – British GT AM/AM – Champions (Unofficial)
- 2020 – Time Attack Club 2WD – Champion
- 2021 – Time Attack Pro 2WD – Champion
- 2023 – Time Attack Pro – Champion
Luke started racing hovercrafts at the age of 11. Not the usual route into car racing, granted, but still awesome nevertheless. Luke became the British junior champion before finishing runner up in the World junior championship. At the age of 16, Luke graduated into Formula 1 hovercrafts and with figures of 160bhp thrust which are normally 2 stroke snowmobile engines, these definitely aren’t for the feint hearted! A good run of success in this category saw Luke finish 3rd in the British F1 Championship.
2013, saw Luke ascertain his racing license and he made his venture into the world of motorsport with the Civic Cup and his EP3. This was followed by a different model from the Honda marque for the next 2 years, with 2014 seeing the appearance of a neat little CRX, followed by a weapon of an FN2 the year after.
After 3 years of piloting a Honda, Luke made the shift to BMW in 2016 with an E46 M3. He participated in the M3 cup in both 2016 and 2017, finishing runner up in the 2016 season. 2017 also marked the year of Luke’s first two international victories, which took place at the PenBay International Circuit, Taiwan for the NTCC.
2018 saw the E46 make way for some V8-goodness in the form of an E92 and a dabble into endurance racing with the Club Enduro Championship. This was just a taster for things to come in 2019, as we saw the arrival of the M4 in a quest for the top spot of Club Enduro.
2020 was an exciting year for Luke as he ventured into Time Attack UK with his Honda NSX. He became the Club 2WD champion, as well as the unofficial AM/AM champions in British GT with Century Motorsport and his BMW M4 GT4 alongside Dave Whitmore.
2021 saw Luke push for more power in his NSX, now affectionately known as Tsuki, as he took on the Pro classes of Time Attack. Now equipped with a 650bhp+ supercharged K24 NSX and slick tyres, he made the top spot of the Pro 2WD class, adding yet another piece of silverware to his ever expanding collection.
2022 saw Tsuki undergo even more development and testing in a bid to be one of the fastest cars in Time Attack. Now equipped with a turbocharged K22 and a heavily developed aero package from AMB, this work came into fruition during 2023 as Luke claimed the Pro class championship.
With a few more rounds of Time Attack under his belt in 2024, Luke has decided to explore a new discipline of motorsport too; rallying. Ascertaining his BARS license in August, Luke will be competing in his first rally event in October in his race to rally converted Honda Civic FN2. He has a couple of other rally plans for the back end of 2024 including the Cadwell stage rally and the Tegiwa headline sponsored Donington Rally on the 1st December. There might be some plans in the work for early 2025 to bring his Mitsubishi Evo 9 RS out for a rally too!
